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has this change already been made to retropie in the github repo?

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could you try using another app to write the image? there might be some rpi-specific onees out there for windows

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sounds VERY strange. this could be an issue of writing the image to the card or perhaps even something with the card itself…

press all of the F# keys with your keyboard when you’re at the screen that says you don’t have any controller

alternatively… add a controller and see if that lets you past

now for the 2.4.2 beta… everything should be working fine, i’ve tested it and it loads up perfectly. i’m using “Pi Filler” which is a mac app but there are likely dozens of comparable out there. try some other method/app to write the image

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please take a look at this page:
https://www.petrockblock.com/retropie/retropie-downloads/download-info/retropie-sd-card-image-v2-4-2-beta/

please remember that it is still in beta!!!!

also remember that n64 emulation is still really bad, not a fault of retropie but likely the emulator or the pi’s limitations

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hey Steven, I once again wanted to heap praise upon you for not only creating this amazing tool but implementing so many of the suggestions that have been put forth

now i have yet another suggestion, i’m never certain as to how much work these require you but please consider adding in Vectrex support – I’m a fan of any controller-based console that lets me exit back to ES lol…

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thats like some kind of OS-specific file or a temp file of some kind created during a transfer/copy?

i think you will unfortunately have to manually delete such files

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have you or anyone else gotten this to work?

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heatsinks on the cpu and memory
OC to turbo
(i set memory split to 16mb during compile, 256 for regular use)
disable the terminal for serial connection
I only use SSH now, never use samba or the USB copying service (I never install/enable those)
Leave nothing extra plugged into the pi, including the keyboard (i only use a controller)

I then run a bash script with “sudo su”:
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sed -i ‘s/#hdmi_group=1/hdmi_group=1/g’ /boot/config.txt
sed -i ‘s/#hdmi_mode=1/hdmi_mode=4/g’ /boot/config.txt
echo -e “avoid_safe_mode=1\navoid_pwm_pll=1\nisp_freq=0\nh264_freq=0” >> /boot/config.txt
sed -i ‘s/elevator=deadline/cgroup_enable=memory elevator=noop/g’ /boot/cmdline.txt
echo “CONF_SWAPSIZE=512” > /etc/dphys-swapfile
dphys-swapfile setup
dphys-swapfile swapon
sed -i ‘s/vm.swappiness=1/vm.swappiness=10/g’ /etc/sysctl.conf
echo ‘vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50’ >> /etc/sysctl.conf
sed -i ‘s/defaults,noatime/defaults,noatime,nodiratime/g’ /etc/fstab
apt-get -y remove –purge rsyslog
apt-get -y install inetutils-syslogd
service inetutils-syslogd stop
for file in /var/log/*.log /var/log/mail.* /var/log/debug /var/log/syslog; do [ -f “$file” ] && rm -f “$file”; done
for dir in fsck news; do [ -d “/var/log/$dir” ] && rm -rf “/var/log/$dir”; done
echo -e “*.*;mail.none;cron.none\t -/var/log/messages\ncron.*\t -/var/log/cron\nmail.*\t -/var/log/mail” > /etc/syslog.conf
mkdir -p /etc/logrotate.d
echo -e “/var/log/cron\n/var/log/mail\n/var/log/messages {\n\trotate 4\n\tweekly\n\tmissingok\n\tnotifempty\n\tcompress\n\tsharedscripts\n\tpostrotate\n\t/etc/init.d/inetutils-syslogd reload >/dev/null\n\tendscript\n}” > /etc/logrotate.d/inetutils-syslogd
service inetutils-syslogd start
apt-get install -y dropbear openssh-client
/etc/init.d/ssh stop
sed -i ‘s/NO_START=1/NO_START=0/g’ /etc/default/dropbear
/etc/init.d/dropbear start
update-rc.d ssh disable
sed -i ‘/[3-6]:23:respawn:\/sbin\/getty 38400 tty[3-6]/s%^%#%g’ /etc/inittab
setupcon
dpkg-reconfigure dash
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Please be careful, if you don’t understand whats going on you probably shouldn’t be using it but it should be safe.

If you are really hardcore:
1. do not use a splash screen
2. delete the simple theme for ES, use no themes!
3. do not use any scraped data for the games
4. compile just what you want, locally on your pi, don’t use the pre-compiled binaries if you don’t have to

the guys who maintain this project have done a REALLY great job at creating an extremely slimmed down image. i would work with that, delete ES/retropie stuff and compile just what i wanted or download just the binaries that i wanted

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you can specify a “turbo” button, you have to hold it down and then press the button you want “turbo’ed” lol, you then hold down the turbo button itself i think. i will try some of this out later

[proxycell]

so what are the further goals of 2.4?

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NBA Jam is a popular one. mario kart is a fairly obviously choice too

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erm, you may not need to reformat your card every time. i have been doing this too and i think you can just delete all of the folders/files and then start over again

i would also recommend that you SSH over ethernet if you can, it would be a lot easier

get yourself the FBA-libretro, not the regular FBA. this one will read the controller config file that you “Register RetroArch Controller” with

EDIT: i would like to mention that i have gotten FBA (both versions) to work with multiple controllers so it is possible. just give it another go

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ahhh, i meant via a controller by default (excluding the libretro stuff). if mame4all-pi can do it i will include it. which key combo does it?

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i would recommend to you the “no-intro” set

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retroarch (libretro)
ES is the frontend GUI that lets you pick your games

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ok, you may want to hit up some emulator forums or whatever for this but i believe you can actually do this. i think i did this once with a PC-E CD game. you will have to burn it to a real CD and then maybe rip it back or something like that. i remember that a lot of prep work was required in this

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did not know that was you jools
i actually using it right now

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you likely needed to increase the overvoltage, have you tried just using raspi-config? they have a lot of default overclock settings which are safe to use
do you have heatsinks applied?

holding down the SHIFT key (if you have a keyboard connected) will ignore the overclockery

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that file is likely being parsed/read by emulationstation

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press “start” on your controller and select the UI options

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@sur0x – would it drop back to ES after quitting still?

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i don’t think you can normally, dgen is not part of the libretro/retroarch framework right? have you tried picodrive?

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that is a very good point, i never really understood it before. to have to hold down the turbo button is a bit strange… would be nice to have a toggle button instead. then again i would love to see a toggle for “slowmotion” even

at least my controller has enough buttons to handle a special button for turbo

EDIT: i do not have enough buttons for this actually lol, this is because of PS1’s dualshock controller using as many as i have

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hey dobby,

have you run ./retropie_setup.sh and then the SETUP and REGISTER RETROARCH CONTROLLER

i have successfully gotten two different wired xbox 360 controllers working this way. however that will only register them for RETROARCH (libretro?) cores (emulators?)

which systems are you looking to use specifically?

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thanks a lot! this has been very helpful!

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hey man, does this requires the fbi package to be installed?

EDIT: wait, is this just modifying the splashscreen to be launched? nothing else? yay!

[proxycell]

try just doing:
input_a_btn = “0”
leave out the player1

[proxycell]

i also would like to know how to get a controller to work in xbmc, a way around this is to network your pi (wifi?) and then have the xbmc web server running so you can control it from there

btw – how did you install xbmc?? i would really like to know your process for it

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awesome, i so rarely see “regular” posts like this here
what games are you playing?

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here is the official documentation for themes in ES
https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/master/THEMES.md

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oh my, you are right. the genesis one is the most worrying. i have posted these to the picodrive and pocketsnes github repo’s but they are not exactly actively developed these days.

there may be some “good” news however. armsnes – a fork of pocketsnes has fixed a lot of sound issues and improved performance but… it has worse compatibility than pocketsnes somehow… i found a bunch of fairly common games do not work on it… now there is ANOTHER snes core being worked on specifically for low-end machines called CatSFC. this emulator is already on the DS but they plan to bring it for things like the Pi and Xperia Play. i’m hopeful and extremely cautious

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argh, you may need to try the ES community itself. try contacting the author of the default “simple” theme. i emailed him yesterday and he replied back immediately to me.

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yeah it has sticky buttons, to resolve that: before you play a game just mash every button really hard and they will “reset” for that session. they are cheap and lightweight but they do work

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i’ve had this too and i would see a lot of error messages so i went to the trouble of resolving as many of the errors and warnings as possible, simply to make it look better even if those issues were not important

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you’re using the retropie 2.3 image right? that is using a non-retroarch/libreto MAME version. you can compile the libretro version and use that or hold on and wait for the eventual release of the new image would I suspect (not guaranteed ever) will have the libretro-MAME

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